The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. IIBrown, Thomas
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II
Brown, Thomas
English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800; Erotic literature -- Early works to 1800; Latin literature -- Translations into English
_Irish._ Boo! boo, boo, boo, boo, hoo, hoo! hell indeed! say’st thou mee
deer joy! be mee shoul, and bee chreest and St. _Patrick_, ee was think
that hee that was in the highway to hell, cou’d not miss St. _Patrick_’s
purgatory, since there is but a wall betwixt them.
_Porter_. Ouns, stand back, or I’ll send you back to the _Boyne_, ye
impudent pultroons you.
_Irish._ Boo, hoo, ooo: bless the sweet faash of thee indeed, poor
_Teague_ will have patience ’till his good grace will let him in indeed.
[_A noise without._
_Lucif._ What noise is that without?
_Porter._ Here is a troop of _Scots_ that swear and stare to get in, and
beg they may but skulk into some cold corner of hell, (which they wou’d
not know from their own country above) with their _Ganymedes_, from the
fury of their wives, whom they hear are just following them at their
heels. And then here is some thousands more from _Asia_, _Africa_, and
_America_, push’d on with the same fear: but I’ll keep them here in the
_Lobby_, ’till your infernal majesty is more at leisure.
_Lucif._ Do so,--for the horrid nauseousness of these sots have almost
put me into a fit of vomiting and looseness. And now, my lords and
gentlemen, that have given your attendance at this court, you may depart
’till farther orders; but tendering my health, both for your sakes and
my own, I shall confer the office of my deputy on our right reverend and
well-belov’d cousin _Belzebub_, prince of the _Flies_; for I am unable
to undergo this fatigue any more.
_Belzebub._ I humbly beg your majesty wou’d excuse my age, and give me
my _quietus_. Here is prince _Satan_, an able and active devil, and
worthy your choice.
_Satan._ Good prince _Belzebub_, you might have spar’d your good word;
for I shall beg to be excus’d, if my former services may be respected;
for I had enough of mankind when I tempted _Eve_, she foil’d me so at my
own weapon; therefore I hope your majesty will confer that troublesome
employment on some devil of less quality than myself.
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